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Yeah, I really wanna play that. Just waiting for the price to drop a bit.

Titanfall 2 I had heard that the campaign in this was good but damn. I can't remember the last time I enjoyed an FPS campaign this much. It's just so much goddamned fun! Some levels are straight up genius, too. One second you're parkouring your way through an automated assembly line building houses and the next you're shifting between the past and present, having to keep track of two combat encounters at the same time and being strategic about where you position yourself when shifting back and forth. For a game all about piloting big robots that punch other big robots, you'd think that every second spent outside the big robot would make you go "When am I getting back inside the big robot?!" But running around as a pilot is just so much fun that it honestly stole the show for me. My favorite parts were when the game made me wallrun my way through hazardous areas and up giant radar dishes. And just when you think you've seen it all you get the smart pistol, and suddenly you feel like even more of a ninja god as you wallrun all over the place effortlessly headshotting every motherfucker along the way. And since this was very short and I still want to wallrun some more, I think Mirror's Edge Catalyst is going to be next.

Yeah, I don't know what my problem is. I'm behind on every single one of the few animes I watch. I still haven't watched Attack on Titan season 2 and I think I might actually be two seasons behind on MHA...

I really need to get around to watching Golden Wind... The wait for its announcement felt like it lasted a hundred years and yet here we are with the one for Part 6 and I still haven't watched it. ?

Call of Cthulhu That would be the 2018 one. It's... fine. It's alright. It was good enough for me to finish it (although it did take me like two months of playing on and off despite its fairly short length). This is one of those games that sounds fantastic on paper but completely fails to deliver on its promise. It looks weird and low budget, it plays weird and low budget, and whatever interesting mechanics it has are half-baked or ultimately pointless. At first, it seems like it's a borderline immersive-sim with semi-open levels, RPG mechanics, and multiple ways to tackle objectives! But it becomes obvious very quickly that it's all pretty shallow and way too limited to qualify as any of those things. You can basically see the seams where ambition clashed with reality. This could've been a pretty damn good horror game had it had a real budget (and perhaps been in the hands of a more skilled developer.) Also, for a game called "Call of Cthulhu: The Official Video Game", it sure has sweet fuck all to do with the Call of Cthulhu short story, or even Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos in general. As it is, it's really more of a heavily-inspired-by kinda deal and it feels like they only slapped the name on it for brand recognition and because it was in the public domain and, presumably, free. If you're in the mood for a Lovecraftian detective game and can look past severely lacking production values, it's honestly not that bad. Like I said, it was good enough for me to finish it and I'm glad I gave it a shot. And if you got it from a bundle like me, then there's really no reason not to give it a shot. But I'm not sure I could recommend buying it on its own unless it was dirt cheap, like less than 10 dollars. Probably closer to 5...

Ever since they started doing this, I low-key assumed that they would eventually backtrack on it at some point, maybe after Phil Spencer is gone. But a few days ago I saw something about how Forza Horizon 4's Steam release performed in Asian countries and now I think Steam might actually provide them with a significant enough source of revenue/market reach that it would make no sense for them to pull out. Especially if rumors of Gamepass coming to Steam are true. At the very least, I'm sure it's obvious to them by now that their games perform significantly better on Steam than they do when released exclusively on their shitty store. I don't think they would've gone back to port Forza if that wasn't the case. And it looks like that did pretty well despite being sold at full price over 2 years after its initial launch (last I checked, it had reached a higher peak concurrent user count than the previously biggest racing game on Steam). So yeah, they're doing a lot of the right things right now but I'm not naive enough to expect MS not to start being shitty again at some point in the future. I don't think it's going to be anytime soon, though.

My warning not to buy Valheim stands. This game is fucking evil. There is always something else to do real quick before turning it off. Next thing you know, it'S 5AM. ?

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Lmao oh God, why. Cold Steel I has like the least interesting plot of the entire series. As for the real reason I'm here. Kuro no Kiseki details and first gameplay footage! I keep forgetting the first Calvard game has already been announced... There's a third clip but it's in a weird aspect ratio and super low quality, so not really worth posting. I don't really understand the decision to have their gameplay reveal in silent, unlisted youtube clips but uh... sure. Also, that combat sure is different. It's taking a page out of Final Fantasy's book and turning into a semi-action game. edit: !!!

Yeah, what Bloodborne really needs is a remaster or, at least, an update to boost the resolution and framerate and fix the fucked up framepacing. Not sure what a full-blown remake just a single gen later could possibly add of significance, tbh. Ray-tracing, I guess? But that's just lighting and could easily fall under the purview of a remaster. The game isn't that old, the 3D assets are still fine lol. There's very little to gain in rebuilding the entire game from scratch.

Don't buy Valheim, guys. It's not a game, it's a fucking curse. I just stopped a 4h session with my friend and it's already calling back to me. I have to restrict myself to just playing on our common world because if I start playing solo I'll do nothing else with my life lmao.

Yeah, once I figured out which rooms I came through more often and just started dropping my shit on the floor there. Then at some point further on I'd find a new room that was more convenient and would do a few voyages moving everything there, the entire time asking myself "what the fuck were they thinking with this shit? how is this supposed to be an improvement?!"

Fuck me, that actually looks like it could be good. It certainly seems to nail the tone. Consider me intrigued.

Right, but isn't that for Hitman 3? Hitman 2 wasn't (and still isn't lol) on the Epic Store. The Epic store didn't even exist yet when Hitman 2 launched.

Really glad they're doing something new with the style instead of just making Octopath 2. It sounds like Octopath wasn't anything special but this aesthetic is really appealing to me.

Are you sure? I know for a fact that it wasn't possible at launch and, after some googling just now, all I can find is either still no or "you can move the profile folder and it will be detected but only work in offline mode". Do you mean importing the levels? Or maybe it was a console-only feature? It doesn't sound like there's an official way to do it on PC, at least.

Yeah, I get you. Hitman 2 repeated all the achievements for the first game and I didn't do them at launch because I had just finished completing the first game but I do intend to redo everything. Which is kinda why I didn't care about the EGS deal because it gives me an extra year to get around to it lol. And I vaguely recall reading that Hitman 3 is going to import your data, including achievements, but even if it doesn't I wouldn't be opposed to redoing it all a third time, tbh. These games are just so fucking good. I've been a Hitman fan since the PS2 days but this is the best the series has ever been.

Viking survival game with an emphasis on boss fights that just launched in early access and has been kind of blowing up. I was about to suggest it to my friends for our co-op gaming nights and it turned out one of them had already bought it so it was an easy pitch lol.

Yeah, that was WAY too blatant of a tease. If they're not actually working on Alan Wake 2 then, honestly, they're just being fucking dicks. If they are making it though, it absolutely WILL be that game Epic is funding and likely a lifetime EGS exclusive. So... that's going to suck either way.

Did you read the documents you found? If you didn't feel like reading all that shit I get that but it probably helps with understanding the lore. As for the TV thing, I guess you mean the little exposition videos all over the place? I dunno, I found them way less intrusive than being interrupted with "PREVIOUSLY ON ALAN WAKE" every goddamn hour lol. They always liked to fuck around with format, even Max Payne had the graphic novel bits. Control is pretty open, borderline a metroidvania, and lets you explore at your own pace. To me, it seems like the antithesis of their needlessly episodic storytelling from before. I guess I draw the line at intruding on gameplay? You're free to ignore the Dr. Darling skits although that's another thing that probably won't help with understanding what's going on. But yeah, if Control annoyed you then don't even bother with Quantum Break, dude. It's even worse than Alan Wake. You get the "PREVIOUSLY ON QUANTUM BREAK" stuff but also you have to watch 10-20 mins of actual shitty TV show episodes between bits of gameplay. Honestly, Quantum Break is so egregious that it's a huge part of why I found Control like such a significant step back on the whole TV thing.

The DLC is mostly its own thing and I found it kind of underwhelming compared to the main game. Mainly because I thought short-form content lost what made the main game so special to me. What did you find incomprehensible about the story? You're expected to hit the ground running early on but I thought it was pretty easy to piece together after a few hours. Given the kind of story this is, the stuff that's left ambiguous is either unexplainable by its very nature or more interesting if left that way. Also, kinda weird to see you bringing up the TV thing since I thought this was their least "TV-ified" game in a while. Alan Wake and Quantum Break were definitely guilty of this but Control was their most "gamey" game since like... Max Payne.

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I may be done with the game but these still slap and I can't stop listening to them.

Good point. And I forgot to mention it but constantly doing jobs for the cops isn't, like, the most punk thing ever. Like, I get that V is a merc but surely they could've come up with something better for this. Early on I was doing everything stealth/non-lethal so it wasn't too jarring but at some point I realized I wasn't getting any kind of bonus for doing so, just making things more tedious for myself. So I just started killing everyone as soon as choking them out became inconvenient and uh... yeah. I was pretty inconsistent in who I killed vs dispatched non-lethally but these police missions in particular had this really weird undertone to them because of it. Like: Police dispatch: V, there's a mugging going on nearby. Can you check it out? V: Sure, I'll pop in real quick and murder everyone. Dispatch: ...... Dispatch: cool

Ha, good to hear I'm not the only one that does this. I always check for missables ahead of time and usually feel like an idiot for doing it. Like, I shouldn't worry about it and just enjoy the damn game lol.